Bed skirt......How to Buy and Give Your Bed a Fresh Look.Just like a new pair of great shoes will totally change an outfit, the right bedskirt can markedly transform the look of your bed. Bed skirts come in a few different construction styles and many different patterns and fabric choices. The selection is almost limitless, but finding just the right one can pull the look of your bed into a complete presentation.A bed skirt, also referred to as a dust ruffle, is a piece of tailored fabric bedding that covers the box spring and space beneath the box spring to the floor. Its purpose is both decorative, giving the bed a fashionable look, as well as functional, slowing the accumulation of dust beneath a bed.Two Main Styles of Bed Skirt.Most bedskirts are either pleated (also called tailored) or ruffled (also called gathered). A pleated bed skirt is made of flat panels of fabric with 2 or 3 splits on each of the sides and at the foot. A ruffled bedskirt is a continuous piece of fabric that goes around the 2 sides and foot of bed which is sewn with a ruffled pattern at the top of the bed skirt.